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Updated at 5:30 pm The city of Dearborn quietly removed a controversial statue of former mayor Orville Hubbard this morning. For years, the 10-foot-tall…

The Titanic and the Lusitania. Those ships are known around the world because of the horrific loss of life when they sank in the Atlantic.But do we know…

Detroit turns 314 years old this week, and the Detroit Drunken Historical Society is throwing a birthday party to celebrate the folklore of Detroit's…

This week marks the 94th anniversary of the birth of one of the most determined and important women in medical science: RosalynYalow.While many people may…

Michigan poets and multimedia artists, Michelle BonczekEvory and Robert Evory, will be the first artists-in-residence at the Gettysburg National Military…

It was one of the most jubilant days in history.VE Day: the end of the Second World War in Europe. David Kiley of Ann Arbor has a unique link to that…

This month marks the 200th birthday of something that helped make Michigan the state we know today.It's the bicentennial of the Michigan meridian.That…

Dr. Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylko was a Nazi prisoner for 15 months. She endured a women's prison, three concentration camps, four slave labor camps and a…

Erna Roberts has had a full life. As a survivor of the WWII Nazi takeover of her homeland, Latvia, as well as two separate Russian occupations, still…

On this day 133 years ago, a young German physician stood up before the members of the Physiological Society of Berlin and announced he had found the…